Haley, Alex

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Name (Hebrew)
היילי, אלכס
Name (Latin)
Haley, Alex
Name (Arabic)
هايلي، أليكس، 1921-1992
Date of birth
1921-08-11
Date of death
1992-02-10
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
African Americans--History
African diaspora
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Language
English
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 80007399
Wikidata: Q296069
Library of congress: n 78089814
Sources of Information
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Wikipedia description:

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993.

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